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Prayer, - By the Rev, Dr. B/\LD\X/I N, of Troy, 
Opening Address, By Rev, Dr, MAYNES, of Troy, 

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1, The Class of 1836, - - Dr, A, P, MASON, 

2, The History of the Past, the Romance of the 

Future, - - - - Dr, P, B, SPE/\R, 

3, Madison University has Spoken to the World, 

Rev, GEO, P, BRIGHAM, 

4, Our Hostess — Her Hospitality the Joy of Her 

Friends. - - - Hon, L, E, GURLEY, 

5, Our Prospects Never Brighter, J/\S, B, COLGATE, 

6, The Men God has Given us, Our Greatest Glory, 

Dr, E, DODGE, 

Followed by Drs, STRONG, HOVEY and ANDREWS 



Class of 1836, 



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The Call. 

During the May anniversaries at Asbury Park, 
N. J., a meeting of the M. U. class of 1836, was 
called, and two being present, Dr. A. P. Mason, of 
Boston, Mass., was made President, and Dr. P. B. 
Spear, of Hamilton, N. Y., Corresponding Secre- 
tary. The following resolution was unanimously 
adopted. 

Whereas, Hitherto no M. U. graduating class has 
celebrated its fiftieth year, and whereas the Class of 
'36 was the first full college class, and was noted 
for its number and otherwise distinguished ; 

Resolved. That this year should be duly observed, 
and that surviving members meet on University 
Hill at Hamilton, N. Y., during the coming June 
Commencement week. 

In accordance with the foregoing, the following 

notice was published : 

Hamilton, N. Y. June 16, 1886. ) 
Wednesday p. m. ) 

At the close of the exercises this day for the ded- 
ication of the Theological Hall, on University Hill, 
members of the Three Faculties with their guests, 



6 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF 

members of both Boards, and M. U. Alumni, are 
invited by Dr. and Mrs. Spear to make a halt at the 
Spear residence, and assist in emphasizing, and com- 
memorating the fiftieth year of the graduation of 
the Class of 1836. Rev. Dr. Haynes, of Troy, will 
preside, and open the meeting with a short address. 

THE MEETING. 

Madison University, Hamilton, N. Y., June 16, 
1886. About 250 guests assembled, and after a col- 
lation provided by Mrs. Spear, Dr. Haynes called the 
meeting to order and thus spoke : 

DR. HAYNES' ADDRESS. 

We are here to mark an era, the fiftieth, anni- 
versary of the Class of 1836. This was Dr. Spears 
graduating class. He has himself, during fifty-four 
years, been identified with Madison University as 
student, teacher, professor, financial officer and 
trustee. We come not to eulogize or flatter. The 
age, the distinguished services, the fidelity of our 
Host, furnish no occasion for this. Our presiding, 
and our words, are in the service of truth. 

As a denomination, we say little of the deeds of 
our best men, but honor them. We make record 
of passing events while men live to confirm them. 
The history of the past is the prophecy of the 
future. History finds its roots in biography. Great 
deeds of men and women make history possible. 



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For this reason, while he is living and working, we 
have come to place a wreath on our brother's brow. 
Dr. Spear, mainly while teaching, has for many 
years had almost exclusive charge of University 
finances. During this time he has had little or no 
assistance by way of clerk, bookkeeper, solicitor, 
collector or assistant. He has found generous 
patrons, donors, and friends. Annual expenses 
have been heavy, growing in about 22 years from 
$9,000 to $44,000 a year. At the same time, by 
night and day working, the endowment has in- 
creased from next to nothing, to half a million. He 
has worked on the most rigid cash principle, bal- 
ancing accounts and keeping all donations invested. 
He has often addressed meetings, visited different 
sections of the State, and in some six or eight differ- 
ent extended efforts, conditioned on raising $100,- 
000, or some other definite sum, he has been uni- 
formly successful. We know ourselves something 
of the nature of this work, sometimes very un- 
pleasant, always requiring great faith, patience and 
indomitable perseverance. The college will prob- 
ably never know what the successes attained have 
cost our brother. There is good reason to thank 
God for the man who has been the chief factor in 
the work, for the determination, the forecasting of 
events, and the pluck that carried him through. 



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Nor are we to forget that Dr. Spear for many a 
year, was the only Professor of Hebrew, and that 
over the world, ministers, missionaries and teachers 
owe largely their interest in philological studies, to 
his enthusiasm as a teacher. Then, nearly 40 years 
ago, when removal convulsions became threaten- 
ing, he struck his spear into the ground and said : 
" God helping, here I stand while the Right re- 
mains," — and this "obstinacy" saved M. U. to the 
denomination and to the world. 

These remarks, necessarily brief, we cannot close 
without adding, that the last " Dielle," which 
showed the doctor's skillful hand, was the great 
strategic movement of his life. 

I have the honor to name the 

FIRST TOAST— "The Glass of 1836/ J 

Dr. Mason's Response. 
The Class of 1836 was a marvelous class, for the 
times — marvelous for number, the sacred forty, 
marvelous in stalwart men, their average age on 
entering Freshmen being 21, and no mean man 
among them; pious all, lovers of study, work, or- 
der, and campus improvement. Marvelous for 
economy and self-reliance; marvelous in their high 
mindedness, being 100 feet above the common 
level ; marvelous for their loyalty, making the laws, 



THE CLASS OF 1836. g 

and obeying them, prompting- the Faculty when they 
did not toe the mark, rebuking them for absences. 
Seriously, they were marvelous for their conscien- 
tiousness and honest inquiry into truth and duty. 
No man could know the esprit de corps of that class 
without admiring it. Its spirit was helpful for every 
high and holy endeavor. 

Seven are living and still fill places of honor and 
responsibility. Seven more became missionaries 
and have all gone to their rest. Five more offered 
themselves for mission work, and a crisis cutting 
off funds, they took high positions at home. One 
was called to a secretaryship in the Mission Board 
at Boston, another in the Iowa Baptist State Edu- 
cation Society. Three more became presidents of 
colleges. Twenty became successful pastors and 
preachers. 

N. B. — It is worthy of note that Messrs. Pren- 
tice, Smith, Raymond and Spear, united in a plan 
for foreign mission work, combining with direct 
evangelizing work, the forming and sustaining of 
an institution or school for the translating of the 
Scriptures into the different languages of the East ; 
that this plan was accepted by the Baptist Mission 
Board at Boston, but a financial crisis intervened ; 
that in the meantime Prentice became pastor at 
Vicksburg and died ; that Smith soon went to Iowa, 



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and Spear and Raymond became tutors for a year. 
But the crisis continued and broke up the plan. 
Raymond and Spear became professors and con- 
tinued in the work of teaching. 

The following list gives the forty who entered 
Freshmen, of whom 28 graduated. 



1. Those now Living. 

Rev. Lucien Hayden, D. D., of Shutesbury, 
Mass., who is still acting as pastor, has also been a 
N. H. legislator ; Rev. Asa Marsh, D. D., now 79, 
is living at Riceville, Iowa, where he has long been 
pastor, and he still "clings to his Redeemer and the 
Bible Theology;" Rev. Alanson P. Mason, D. D., 
Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass., is and has long 
been corresponding secretary of the Home Mission 
Society for New England ; Rev. Dexter P. Smith, 
D. D., corresponding secretary of the Baptist State 
Convention of Iowa, is now, for his wife's health, 
in Santa Anna,Cal.; P. B. Spear, Madison Universi- 
ty, Hamilton, N. Y.; Rev. George M. Spratt, D. 
D., corresponding secretary of the Pennsylvania 
Baptist Education Society, Philadelphia, Pa.; J. 
S. Hascall, Durham, Maine, teacher. Total, 7. 
Aggregate years, 530. Average age, 75 7-10. At 
graduation 25 7-10. 



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2. The Remaining Members. 



Rev. Miles Bronson, D. D.* 

Rev. William Brown. 

Rev. George C. Chandler, D. D.f 

Rev. Wm. Cary Crane, D. D.f 

Rev. Sylvester Davis. 

Rev. Samuel S. Day.* 

Rev. James M. Haswell, D. D.* 

Rev. Frederic Ketcham, Editor. 

Rev J. 0. Mason, D. D. 

Rev. Philetus B. Peck. 

Rev. Ralph M. Prentice. 

Rev. John H. Raymond, LL. D.f 

Rev. Alanson Reed.* 

Rev. Jacob Thomas.* 



Rev. Almiron Brown. 

Rev. H.'B.Ewell. 

Rev. Charles R. Kellum. 



Rev. Lyman B. King. 
Rev. Peter Robinson. 
Rev. John M. Rasco. 
Rev. Lyman Stilson.* 



Rev. Ralph 1. Brown. 
Rev. Solomon Carpenter.* 
Edwin A. Doolittle, lawyer. 
Rev. H. D. Doolittle. 
Franklin A. Pierson, M. D. 
Anson Root. 
Rev. George L. Russell. 
Rev. Ezekiel Saxton. 
Rev. Julius S. Shailer. 
Rev. Daniel C. Wait. 
Rev. John H. Walden. 
Rev. Henry Wooster. 



Disasters by Land and Sea. 

Jacob Thomas was killed July 7, 1837, by a fall- 
ing tree, which being undermined by the water, fell 
upon him and his boat, while he was going up the 
Burrampooter. He had just come into sight of his 
field for missionary labor. 

Alanson Reed, one month later, died of cholera 
at Bankok, Siam, just as he had begun a heroic 
missionary life. 

Notb— For fuller accounts see M. U. Jubilee volume, and Cathcart's Baptist Ency- 
clopedia. 
♦Foreign Missionaries. 
tCollege Presidents. 



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Ralph M. Prentice died August 28th, 1840, of 
yellow fever, at Vicksburg, Miss., having begun a 
most promising career of usefulness. 

One student in his room, while scuffling for ex- 
ercise broke his ankle, simply for a warning to 
others. 

Besides the above, in the course of fifty years, 
twelve unfortunate members were suddenly struck 
D**D. 



SECOND TOAST— " History of the Past, the Ro- 
mance of the Future/' 

Dr. Spear. 

History is a record of facts, with their relations 
as cause and effect. Romance is a "wonderful 
tale." We cannot now weave a history of the last 
fifty years, either of the University or of the Class 
of 1836, or of ourselves as actors. Nor can we 
from our fancy spin a romance. The past is suffi- 
ciently suggestive, to build from it a structure of 
possibilities that might glitter and dazzle down 
through the lapse of ages, but it would be conject- 
ural. 

First, there is romance in finance ; would you 
think it ? Fine aunts have always received atten- 
tion when affluent. History in this line is a tale of 



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wonders. We dare not pursue it. Finance is the word. 
Let us see ; thirteen men gave thirteen dollars. This 
was the nucleus, the starting point for a great enter- 
prise. From it like magic, springs a University 
with three schools, three Faculties, magnificent 
buildings and grounds, no debt, and half a million 
for endowment. This is romance. Headly's his- 
tory of Grant, reads like a romance. It is a tale of 
wonders. There is comparatively little romance 
when a million of dollars is appropriated by Con- 
gress or by the Legislature, and this is paid out in 
a matter-of-fact way to make buildings, libraries 
and faculties. There is little romance in a sixteen 
million State capitol, with cries of extravagance, 
fraud, bad management, and demands for investiga- 
tion and new appropriations. There is too much 
fuss for either history or romance. There is little 
romance in a full moon. But when you see the 
tiny crescent faintly outlined and then for fourteen 
nights watch it till the full silvery orb comes out 
" round as my shield," this, if you had not before 
seen it, would be the height of romance. You may 
have seen the comet when it first shoots into sight. 
There is little romance about it. But when its 
widening, lengthening, curving tail, sweeps around 
over half the vault of Heaven, this is romance, for 
this is a wonderful tail. 



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Reverently, there is romance in the interpositions 
of Divine Providence, in wonderful deliverances 
from financial trouble, in great results from small 
means, in the narrow straits passed. Rocks on one 
side, whirlpools on the other ; in the magnificent 
manner in which our craft has weathered gales and 
frowning skies. All this is woven in the warp and 
woof of her history, and is the romance of the past. 

With the same Divine oversight, with the same 
human forecast and care, with the same prayerful 
watching, with a sound financial policy, with a stren- 
uous administration of government, and with wise 
laws, the same results as in the past will be the ro- 
mance of the future. 

Sixty-six years has this grand enterprise held on its 
way. Nor has it had one serious set-back, except 
that thirty-nine years ago, in the midst of a personal 
difficulty, the removal controversy was sprung upon 
it, and that, too, at the close of one of the most 
auspicious commencements the institution ever had. 
Drs. Beebee, Osborn and Grenell were of the 
large graduating class of that year. Three years 
this controversy continued, when the University 
emerged with more of young vigor, with more of 
enthusiam and recuperative energy than had ever been 
shown in all its previous history. The manifest in- 
terpositions of Divine Providence during those three 



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years, and the three years that followed, lend a 
glamour and charm to their history that rival the 
tales of the Arabian Nights. Their history is a 
real romance, a tale of wonders. 

The speaker may be pardoned for a personal 
allusion. He has been for fifty-four years identified 
with this institution — has known personally every 
tutor, teacher and professor, every financial officer 
and agent, and nearly every graduate from 1820 
down. If it be thought that there was not in the 
earliest days as broad and critical culture as in later 
times, there was a depth of the philosophy of life, 
an earnestness and self-denial, a courage and faith, a 
force in execution, a strenuous persistence in the 
face of difficulties ; a self-abnegation and devotion 
to principle, a philological, critical, and prayerful 
study of the Divine Word, and a clear penetration 
into the Divine Will, that marks those times as the 
age of romance. There was something like romance 
in the Providences of the speaker's own life ; how 
he came here ? how he staid ? — where he lived ? — 
all answered by the exigences of the times, that 
outstripped and thwarted personal plans. When a 
boy, he started for Geneva, brought up at Hamilton 
Village. Having completed his course, he was 
ordained to go to the Heathen. A crisis kept him 
at home. He chose his house on the plain. The 
Board intervened and gave him more elevated views 



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of life — on a hill. After ten years of teaching, he 
prepared to go on a tour to Europe. The " Re- 
moval " train started at the same time. He went 
aboard. Brakes were put on, and the train did not 
leave the Hamilton station. 

He has always regarded one of the most insignifi- 
cant of the incidents of his life, as a prime pivot on 
which his life has turned. 

In 1 83 1 Dr. N. Kendrick, in one of his financial 
tours stopped at Palmyra at Spear's house, then 
called a " Baptist Tavern." The boy cared for his 
horse. While hitching the tug on one side the Dr. 
stepped up on the other, and looking over the back 
of the horse, said : " Young man, what are you 
intending to do in the future ? " The boy modestly 
answered : " I start to-morrow morning for Geneva 
College." ''Geneva College?" the Doctor said. 
" We have a school at Hamilton where I live. Per- 
haps you would like to go there" The Doctor 
stepped into his buggy and rode off, but he turned 
up to the gate of the pastor, a few rods off, and in- 
quired : " What sort of a young man is that over 
there ? " On the pastor's reply, the Doctor said : 
"Send him on to Hamilton." The result was that the 
trunk which was already packed for Geneva, was 
put on the stage for Hamilton. The boy felt at 
that time that there was a guidance over him more 



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than human, and he ever afterward, with new confi- 
dence, looked up and watched the index finger of 
the Almighty. He was the first " un-ministerial " 
student admitted. What next ? — " Rooms all full." 
He was put in a room with " Tutor Kendrick," 
now Dr. A. C. K. He stayed, kept house, taught 
the Professor in domestic matters, while the 
Professor taught him Greek, then roomed with 
Tutor J. F. Richardson, and finally for his perma- 
nent room-mate, had John H. Raymond, a genial 
soul, afterward President of Vassar, with whom 
in the most perfect harmony for more than 16 
years he was associated as room-mate classmate, 
and colleague in the same Faculty. But Dr. Ray- 
mond, in 1850, alarmed by the removal agitation, 
ran away, holding 

That he who fights and runs away, 
May live to fight another day. 
But he who lies among the slain, 
Can never live to fight again. 

There is romance in a man's years, if they have 
not been marked by vices or crimes, or unpardona- 
ble blunders, and fatal mistakes. If he has been 
industrious, cautious, and with reasonable steadiness 
and perseverance, has pursued the legitimate ob- 
jects of his life. If he has planned well and been 
successful in execution, his life is a tale of wonders; 
for those who have studied into the chances of life 
say, that not six in a hundred are truly successful. 



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The Rev. Reuben Jeffery, D. D., of Indianapolis, 
a year ago at the Alumni dinner, made some face- 
tious remarks and queries about the age of " his 
old teacher, Dr. Spear,*' which having been in part 
responded to, may perhaps be more fully satisfied 
by the following account recently found in the 
ancient records. 

The record of Philetus Bennett Spear found in 
the old genealogies : 

Maturing and preparing for college, - 

Exclusive farming after preparing for college, 

College study, plodding and graduating, 

Biblical, theological and ecclesiastical study, 

Preaching and acting as pastor, - 

Teaching Greek and Greek authors, - 

Teaching Latin and Latin authors, 

Teaching Hebrew and Hebrew Bible, 

Teaching Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, - 

Regulating the removal movement, - 

Secretary of University Board, - 

Secretary of Education Board, - 

Librarian of Madison University, - - - - 

Solicitor, Collector and Treasurer, ... 

Total, ----- 152 years. 

Are not all the days of the years of his life one 
hundred and fifty-two years ? And his acts what he 
did, both good and bad, are they not written in the 
books of the Chronicles, of the sons of Madison ? 



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THIRD TOAST— " Madison University has Spoken 
to the World/' 

Rev. Geo. H. Brigham. 
Mr. Brigham was of the Class of 1854. No man 
could have been more fitly chosen to respond to 
this sentiment. He has not only been student, but 
pastor, and has long represented the mission cause 
by being District Secretary for New York, also the 
cause of education by being on the Education Board. 
He is always eloquent and inspiring. But this 
theme seemed to have run in the current of his best 
thought and feeling. His vision was quickened 
and his eye at once swept the horizon of the wide 
field over which not less than 3,000 alumni and 
students, living and dead, are scattered over new 
States and Territories in the West, among the un- 
enlightened millions in the East, and speaking to 
the growing churches of the States around us. His 
address thrilled, and the best part of it — its inspira- 
tion, could not be reported by himself or us. 

FOURTH TOAST,-" Our Hostess-Her Abounding 
Hospitality the Joy of Her many Friends;' 

Hon. Lewis* E. Gurley. 
As " Our Hostess" has not many years been 
identified with " Hill life," and has before served few 
collations, especially for the University people, and 



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having been freely congratulated on her success in 
the present instance, and especially as the dinner 
provided had not at the time of Mr. Gurley's speech, 
been entirely digested, Mr. Gurley did not deem 
it necessary to leave a report of the fitting and deli- 
cate terms in which he uttered himself. He knew 
that he voiced the sentiment of all present, and that 
he was happy in speaking at the moment when their 
joy was full. Mr. Gurley is an alumnus of Union 
College. He could therefore speak without the 
suspicion of showing partiality as if for his own. 
True, it might have lent some inspiration that his 
accomplished wife was the daughter of a most 
esteemed class-mate of " Our Host." 

FIFTH TOAST,— "Our Prospects Never Brighter/' 

James B. Colgate. 

Whether this meant the prospect just before us 
when looking over the loaded tables, or the pros- 
pect below us, when looking from the Hill, over 
the fields all dressed in living green, or whether it 
meant the clear blue sky just after some light clouds 
had shed down on us a few tear drops, he has left 
no report to show. It might have referred to some 
grand move on the great checker-board, by the 
money kings of Wall street. But knowing that 
Mr. Colgate, when he comes to Hamilton, is obliv- 



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ious to every other consideration, except the one 
that fills his mind and makes his heart throb with 
emotion, we are safe in concluding that our pros- 
pects are the " Future of Madison University." On 
this theme he is always eloquent, both when he 
speaks and when he keeps silence. 



SIXm TQAST.— f( The Men Ood has given us/' 
Dr. E. Dodge. 

A grand theme, on which Dr. Dodge in his best 
mood, uttered one of his characteristic addresses. 

He was followed by Dr. A. H. Strong, President 
of the Rochester Theological Seminary, in some 
friendly and pertinent thoughts on the relations of 
" Mother" and " Daughter." 

Dr. Alvah Hovey, President of the Newton 
Theological Seminary, followed, endorsing what had 
been said on the beautiful site, the work and destiny 
of Madison University. 

Dr. Andrews was then called on, who with Dr. 
Haynes had kindly assisted in arrangements for 
the occasion, and with pertinent and congratulatory 
remarks, one of the pleasantest social gatherings that 
has for a long time graced University Hill, was 
closed, and the Class of 1836 adjourned to meet 



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again, if any should live, at the same place, A. D. 
1936. 

In behalf of the living and in memory of the dead, 
and trusting in an ultimate re-union of all, we sub- 
scribe ourselves, 

A. P. MASON, President 

P. B. Spear, Cor. Secretary. 

NOTES, 

1. P. B. Spear was the first student admitted as 
"Not a Student for the Ministry." But soon after Dr. 
Elisha E. L. Taylor was admitted as the second. 
He became the successful pastor of Strong Place 
Church, Brooklyn. It was not till August, 1839, 
that the Board of Education and the " B. E. S. S. 
N. Y., by formal action, opened the doors for a 
" limited number" of this class, throwing around 
their action all possible safeguards, that this class 
should in no way interfere with the education of the 
rising ministry. See resolutions in Annual Report 
of 1839, P- J 3- 

2. The Class of 1835, the Shailerand Richardson 
Class, which anteceded the Spear Class, so far as is 
known has not a member living. This classs num- 
bered seven and is registered in the Jubilee Volume 
as the first college class after the re-organization of 
1832. But this class took regularly only the junior 

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and senior years, while the Class of 1836 fulfilled 
the college course. 

Classes that graduated, anterior to 1836, are now- 
best known by a name or two, as follows : 

Graduated. 
The Kincaid and Wade Class - 1822 

E. Savage* and J. N. Brown, Class - 1823 

P. Church and Jacob Knapp, Class - - - 1824 
David Corwin and Hartshorn, Class - 1825 

M. Allen and J. D. Cole, Class - - - 1826 

H. Davis and J. Swan, Class 1827 

Chamberlain and Eldridge, Class - 1828 

J. Fletcher and Levi Tucker, Class - 1829 

C. Randall and John Wilder, Class - - - 1830 

J. S. Moore and Newell, Class ... - 1831 
J. R. Boise and Eddy, Class - (extended) 

Dean, Vinton, Comstock, Class ... - 1833 
Shailer, Buell, Richardson, Class - - - 1835 

Mason, Spear, Raymond, Class - 1836 

3. Dr. John H. Raymond is noticed in his biog- 
raphy as graduating from Union College. He took 
his baccalaureate at Union, where he had previously 
studied, for M. U. as an institution had not then 
the power of conferring degrees. But he was as 
ready to acknowledge M. U. his alma mater as the 
Class of '36, to own him as a member, brother, and 
regular graduate. Most of the class took their 
degrees at Columbian College. 



*Rev. Eleazar Savage died at the age of 86, in June, 1886, soon after this class 
meeting. Rev. Adrian Foote of the Swan Class, 1827, has also just died, August, 
1886, at the remarkble age of 99 years. 



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4. No previous class has celebrated their semi- 
centennial graduation, for no full college class was 
was previously graduated. 

Nor is it known of all the classes preceding 1836, 
that any representatives are living except Rev. 
Eleazar Savage, of Rochester, of the Class of 1823. 
Rev. Conant Sawyer, D. D., Albion, of the Class 
of 1827. Rev. Russell Jennings, Deep River, Ct, 
of the Class of 1827. Rev. Henry C. Vogell, D. D., 
of Brooklyn, of the Class of 1827. Rev. Reuben 
Winegar, of Amsterdam, of the Class of 1831. 
Rev. William Dean, D. D., missionary, of the Class 
of 1833. 

Rev. Pharcellus Church, D. D., of Tarry town, of 
the Class of 1824, died June 5th, 1886, at the age 
of 85. Dr. Kincaid, Class of 1822, missionary, died 
three years ago at 86. If he had lived till now, he 
would have been the connecting link of the entire 
M. U. history. It is remarkable that Drs. Wade 
and Kincaid, the two who first came to the " school" 
and graduated, should both as Missionaries have had 
such long and eventful lives. Again it appears, that 
it is not always hard work that kill. 

5. In those early days, in great straits, there were 
fervent and effectual prayers offered by such men as 
Olmstead, Payne and Swan, that seemed to bring 



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direct answers. But for simplicity, beauty, fervor 
and appropriateness, the prayer of the venerable 
Dr Dean, class of 1 833, at the dedication of the Theo- 
logical Hall, and the prayer of Dr. Baldwin, class 
of 1842, at the fiftieth anniversary of the class of 
1836, was a most remarkable feature, that lent 
inspiration to all the exercises that followed. 



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